black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Nikolai Gogol

it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Company Money People
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Body Depend Soul
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Himself Young
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Chase Myself Start View Warning
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Blessing Soil
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Authority Destruction Town
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Listening Myself See
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nikolai Gogol Quotes